Treasure The Gifts of The Holy Spirit

Understanding gives us a swift, easy, intuitive grasp of the meaning of the truths God has revealed to us. Wisdom helps us to judge Divine things. Counsel helps us to bring all this knowledge to bear upon the decisions we must make in our particular actions. Fortitude perfects our appetite by strengthening it divinely against the fear of danger. Knowledge enables us to judge quickly the created things in the world in their relation to God. Piety perfects the virtue of justice in the will by moving us to do good to all men out of reverence for God. Fear of the Lord perfects our appetite against the inordinate lust for pleasures. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us to produce divine-human acts in us. God produces these acts in us but not without us. We are moved to action by the Holy Spirit, it is still we who move. The actions are ours. They flow forth from our reason and appetite.

Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.

[This is just one of the 1200 powerful quotations you will find in my award-winning book, Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct.]

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Jesus to St. Catherine of Siena on Divine Providence

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Nothing has ever happened and nothing happens save by the plan of My Divine Providence. In all things that I permit, in all things that I give you, in tribulations and in consolations, temporal or spiritual, I do nothing save for your good, so that you may be sanctified in Me and that My Truth be fulfilled in you. (From The Dialogue ) PAUSE AND PONDER: Am I unwilling to believe God when He says nothing happens in my life that is not part of His Divine will for me? Do I refuse to see God’s hands in the struggles and trials of my daily life? Am I afraid to trust Him? (Excerpted from Pondering Tidbits of Truth, Volume VI)

Had We Only Listened and Obeyed!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The judgment of one’s state of grace obviously belongs only to the person involved, since it is a question of examining one’s conscience. However, in cases of outward conduct which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm, the Church, in her pastoral concern for the good order of the community and out of respect for the sacrament, cannot fail to feel directly involved. The Code of Canon Law refers to this situation of a manifest lack of proper moral disposition when it states that those who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Eucharistic Communion". Saint John Paul II

What A Priceless and Undeserved Gift!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The effects of Holy Communion are: spiritual nourishment of the soul (an increase in sanctifying grace, of the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit); intimate union of the soul with Christ and with His mystical body through grace and charity; a diminishing or mitigating of sensual passions; a glorious resurrection of the body; the remission of venial sins; the remission in some part or in great part of the temporal punishment due to sin; and spiritual sweetness and delights. Father Winfrid Herbst, S.D.S

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